There is a difference between opposing gay marriage, and actively campaigning to ensure that LGBT individuals do not obtain equal rights.

12:39 pm May 8, 2012

HST wrote:

I have to agree, Nuance. If you oppose gay marriage, don't marry someone of the same sex. That simple. But I don't understand straight people who think gay marriage in any way affects them. Oddly, it is often the same people calling for less government intrusion who want laws banning same sex marriage.

12:42 pm May 8, 2012

Thorgood Smith wrote:

I appreciate the car wash guy who discerns where the automated washer missed a spot of dirt and cleans it by hand. Then again when my teen discriminated against the smoking crowd and never picked up the habit, that decision represented successful milestone. However, even if she did, I'd love her and not her habit.

Similarly, there are a variety of reasons to discriminate against homosexuality. Medical reasons such as gay bowel disease and depression, increased health care related costs, offending straight people who abhor homosexual advances, it's biologically dysfunctional, it ignores the reality that life is sexually transmitted, it severs a family lineage, it promotes the disintegration of biological families, exposes impressionable children to a lifestyle parents disagree with, it creates a shortened life span, and most importantly to some of us, the Bible says it's wrong. And while these values can't be forced on others, they should at least examine the evidence.

1:29 pm May 8, 2012

AL_X wrote:

Although it seems that your intentions were thoughtful Thorgood, I can't help but completely rile against it on the basis of your using outdated, short-sighted, and generallly invalid information.

Gay bowel disease? A no-longer applied term used to marginalize gays and has been subsequently dropped. It severs family lineage? The disintegration of biological families? Same excuses were labelled at interracial couplings; not to mention that it ignores the creations of new ones (i.e. gay adoption) and undermines non-procreating heterosexual couples. As for a shortened life span? That's a now-laughable conclusion conceived during the heightened AIDS epidemic (late 1980s) when it was assumed that every gay man would eventually succumb to this "cancer" on the sole basis of being gay. As for the children -- you're right, they're quite impressionable. But instead of teaching them intolerance and thus fostering in them an inability to communicate with their diverse peers (which by the way limits their utility in a rapidly-globalizing world), they should be taught the values and principles that will allow them to be expressive and successful at navigating their diverse society.

9:32 pm May 8, 2012

CarolO wrote:

Who cares what Obama's private thoughts are on gay marriages? He has done more for Gay Rights than anyone has prior to his presidency. He believes in strong civil unions and has said so. I don't believe he is for gay marriage and has not come to terms with that yet. He has the right to believe how he wants just as Joe Biden has the right to believe as he will.

So really.......big Deal. You can vote for the guy who worked to make Gay Rights better in his first term or you not vote for him because he won't spell it out for you and vote for the other side of the asile, and loose more ground than you gained under Obama. So really. Is it really all that important that Obama shares his private thoughts with you?

11:41 am May 9, 2012

Lowell Thomas wrote:

Nuance, et.al., are really missing the point. Let's give Joe Biden his due and recognize that he has deftly protected his status as Obama's VP. Moving forward, you will not hear anything about replacing him. Forget slick Willie; this is slick Joe.

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